ARTfarm Wednesday PM: High Season Yums… 3/5/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Fresh heirloom tomatoes are at their sweetest at the peak of the season after the rains have mostly stopped!

There’s a natural ebb and flow with the season. For this mid-week stand, we’ll have an abundance of salad greens and more tomatoes and watermelon. Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

Watermelon is one of Luca’s favorite crops.

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Mini butternut squashes
  • Fresh breakfast radishes with green tops
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (mixed varieties)
  • Watermelon – red AND yellow!
  • Chinese cabbage leaves – bunched
  • Kale
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Papaya
  • Coconuts (for coconut water)
  • Eggs
  • Green hot peppers
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Scallions
  • Lemongrass

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

Baby ginger freshly harvested at ARTfarm.

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, and also these round red things… 2/26/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Cilantro in the gardens goes to flower and turns into coriander seed, eventually. Dill also puts up similar “fireworks” shaped flower clusters and has a strong fennel scent. We like to use them in flower arrangements!

Tomatoes and salad! Tomato seconds available for the early birds, so rock your sassy secret salsas, sauces and soups!

Once again, enjoy the bounty of this winter season. Conditions are starting to dry up on the South Shore, which will make the flavors more pungent, but also means it may be a shorter season. So don’t miss out! Come see us tomorrow afternoon.

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are pretty regular. It will be first come first served Wednesday. As usual, if the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

Sunday afternoons around 4 PM have become a hot time slot for volunteers. If you’d like to join our little group, give us a call or send a text or reach out through social media or email. If you are interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We recommend coming about halfway or later through the hour if you would like a shorter line. We really appreciate your support.

A closeup of pico di gallo, a fresh raw tomato and herb dish
This is the time of year for pico di gallo and other fresh treats using all the tomatoes!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix
  • Baby arugula
  • Baby spicy salad mix 
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese  and American slicer)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Green hot peppers
  • Carrots with green tops (for juicing if you like)
  • Cooking greens
  • Tomato seconds, not pretty but delicious!
  • Baby Ginger
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Zinnia flowers
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of mangoes  for a handful of early birds

We appreciate you all! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

The cherry tomatoes are seriously here for 2025!

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: pep in your step with PEPPERS and tomatoes and salad mix… 2/19/2025, 5 – 6 PM

Jalapeño peppers, just about ready!

Tomatoes and salad! Enjoy the bounty of this winter season.

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. Still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Wednesday. If the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

As we keep saying in these cooler months, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.

Be a sustainability hero! Volunteer at the ARTfarm and help us sequester carbon and improve the diets of all!

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Teen arugula
  • Teen spicy salad mix
  • Cooking greens
  • French breakfast radishes with edible green tops
  • Green bell (sweet) peppers
  • Green hot peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of Haitian kidney mangoes
  • A few pomegranates!

Happy Tomato Season! See ya Wednesday 5 – 6pm!

ARTfarm Wednesday PM: SALAD options, heirloom TOMATOES, CAIMITO star apple fruits… 2/12/2025, 5 – 6 PM

The Caimito (star apple) fruit tastes like a sweet and juicy cross between a cantaloupe and lychee. They become slightly soft when ripe with a sweet smell. It can be eaten out of the skin, added to salad, made into ice cream or jam, or added to smoothies. Lurking in the background are two kaffir limes. These are delicious and they have plenty of rind if you need fragrant citrus peel.

Have you tried a star apple? Not a star fruit (carambola) or a malay apple (wax jambu) but a star apple (caimito)! It’s in the sapote family, and we have some sweet ones. The sweet juicy flavor has been described “…as if a cantalope and a lychee had a fruit baby!” They are often purple, but we have the green ones and they are ripe and ready!

Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mid-morning are starting to be more regular. Still holding off on the timeslot reservations at this point. It will be first come first served Wednesday. If the crowd looks thick, Farmer Luca may ration some items so no one goes home empty handed.

As we keep saying in these cooler months, it’s a great time to ask about volunteering on the farm, or tell a friend if you know someone who might be interested in learning more about sustainable, regenerative gardening practices — we would love some help in the gardens and with a few other tasks as well. Volunteers have always been crucial elements of our system.

If you have reached out to us about volunteering and we haven’t gotten back to you yet please be persistent. This is our busiest time of year. We could still use your help. Just reach out again!

No reservations; first come, first served. We really appreciate your support.

The lettuce nursery at ARTfarm…

Plenty for All

  • Sweet salad mix (tender, and sweet from the rain)
  • Teen arugula
  • Baby spicy
  • Sweet and spicy salad mix
  • Slicer tomatoes
  • Heirloom tomatoes
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Cucumbers (Japanese)
  • Kaffir lime leaves and limes (fruit)

Early Birds

  • Baby bok Choy
  • Bunched arugula
  • French breakfast radishes with edible green tops
  • Large pink radishes with edible green tops
  • White turnips with edible green tops
  • Carrots with juiceable tops
  • Baby ginger
  • Green hot peppers
  • Italian basil
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Parsley
  • Small leaf oregano
  • Lemongrass
  • A handful of Haitian kidney mangoes
  • Caimito fruit! from a neighbor up the road…

Big love to all! See you Wednesday 5 – 6pm!